... vogue at the clubs, and at the Newmarket. A trainer or an adventurer seldom raced. at New- du course are now as common as blackberries. I it whose were and betting, except almost is on the wane, owing to the almost Machiavellian des ver, bred which pla have ...

... GOSSIP FROM GLASGOW. TO serve occasion reasons are as plentiful as blackberries, and the why is plain as way to parish church. When a new hall is wanted, all sorts of arguments are hurled against the old one. It is inconveniently situated, it is i ...

... one in the great room &No.. 168), “ Blackberry Gatherers ’—a picture of the side of a hill, with brambles and fir-trees growing out of the sloping ground, with girls in pinifores and sunbonnets ransacking the blackberry bushes, which seems to be a poem and ...

... trouble of coming back Two gentlemen passing a blackberry bush when the fruit was unripe, one said it was ridiculous to call; them black berries, when they were red. Don you know,” said his friend, that blackberries are always red when they are green.” , j ...

... . wretched “screws” imaginable. Indeed, old Bill Ward would say. they looked like “ gipsies' dogs who had been trained blackberries, swede turnips, and rope ends. The blnid. the maimed, and the halt stood massed pitifully, or else were driven about to ...

... for ten harvest hands, did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a cslioo dress, practised her music lesson, went blackberrying, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime.—There's a ...

... as well as he, that when ho hoard voices ho sprang up and caught hold of a branch that was full, and began to pluck the blackberries very quickly, and in doing so he scratched his finger. lam sure it was very bad, but of course lie was ashamed to say anything ...

... ambitious and elaborate works as cantatas for solo voices, full orchestra, and chorus, are no means so plentiful the proverbial blackberries of September. It behoves us, then, to give them their full due, if not to make much of them, and, so far may be consistent ...

... expert with the gun will secure good bags. Hares in most of the home countries, are plentiful, and rabbits are as thick as blackberries. Farmers raise the old cry of being eaten up alive by them. The pheasant coverts vary much in stock, in some preserves ...

... fair one, in point of numbers and quality, though there is a talk of another Cockney Boy, trained, like a gipsy's dog, on blackberries and Swede turnips, being among the competitors. The following may be taken as a pretty accurate guess at THE DERBY RUNNERS ...

... Mr. Stephens' Blackberry Picking, well carved as it is, may be qnoted as another example of what is to deprecated. What does it mean? Here is a pretty, but absurd young lady, enzisha. bile, supposed to have been picking blackberries! The truth is, the ...

... BY AN INHABITANT OF THE INVADED DISTRICT ENGLISH lanes in the month of September have usually a closer acquaintance with blackberries and hazel nuts than with troops of cavalry and regiments of the line; and English commons and heaths are more familiar ...